Re: [BangPypers] Responding to people who lack the curiosity

2009-06-12 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Friday 12 June 2009 14:05:18 Mandar Gokhale wrote: > Jayanth: I've come to lament the factory like nature of IT in India. People > learn extremely minimal subset of specialized skills. I've had chaps who > can't see beyond .NET or Java very simply because these are industry > idioms. I tell them

Re: [BangPypers] Responding to people who lack the curiosity

2009-06-12 Thread Pradeep Gowda
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 8:38 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > On Friday 12 June 2009 14:30:57 Srijayanth Sridhar wrote: >> What are your experiences as a person from a "small town"? My question is >> more directed towards your 'programming culture' now vis-a-vis to your >> programming culture from yo

Re: [BangPypers] Responding to people who lack the curiosity

2009-06-12 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Friday 12 June 2009 19:14:36 Pradeep Gowda wrote: > On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 2:20 AM, Sridhar > > Ratnakumar wrote: > > Now do you think a person who is lazy to type a few characters in an > > Internet search engine (as evidenced by "Is there any tutorial. Should > > we include any library?") wou

Re: [BangPypers] Responding to people who lack the curiosity

2009-06-12 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Friday 12 June 2009 14:30:57 Srijayanth Sridhar wrote: > What are your experiences as a person from a "small town"? My question is > more directed towards your 'programming culture' now vis-a-vis to your > programming culture from your small town? I am both 'from' and mostly 'in' a small town.

Re: [BangPypers] Responding to people who lack the curiosity

2009-06-12 Thread Srijayanth Sridhar
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 9:12 PM, Anand Chitipothu wrote: > 2009/6/12 Srijayanth Sridhar : > > As we speak: > > > > http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/339092 > > > > Jayanth > > Don't blame the poor chap here. Blame microsoft for that cryptic error > message. > > "'nmake' i

Re: [BangPypers] Responding to people who lack the curiosity

2009-06-12 Thread Anand Chitipothu
2009/6/12 Srijayanth Sridhar : > As we speak: > > http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/339092 > > Jayanth Don't blame the poor chap here. Blame microsoft for that cryptic error message. "'nmake' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch

Re: [BangPypers] Responding to people who lack the curiosity

2009-06-12 Thread vid
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 18:12, Pradeep Gowda wrote: > > While a name like "Manmohan Singh Ph.D(oxford econ)" may be treated > with suspicion, I see no problem > with a name like Rita Rai. I do not care for real names, as long as > the nick you use is acts as smart you are in real life. ah, now you

Re: [BangPypers] Responding to people who lack the curiosity

2009-06-12 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 4:45 PM, Kamal govindraj wrote: [..] > I also feel that we need to either ignore such requests (unless the list > gets inundated by those) are politely guide them to ways they can solve > such issues on their own / better ways of asking questions.  Being rude > will not help

Re: [BangPypers] Responding to people who lack the curiosity

2009-06-12 Thread Pradeep Gowda
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 2:20 AM, Sridhar Ratnakumar wrote: > Now do you think a person who is lazy to type a few characters in an > Internet search engine (as evidenced by "Is there any tutorial. Should > we include any library?") would be interested at all in reading a > 60,000 words document? On

Re: [BangPypers] Responding to people who lack the curiosity

2009-06-12 Thread Pradeep Gowda
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 9:36 AM, Pradeep Gowda wrote: > On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 8:57 AM, Srijayanth Sridhar > wrote: >> Names are irrelevant on the internet, so I agree with both of you in a >> certain way. > > Well, there is one way to be relevant   in programming circles, > which is often conden

Re: [BangPypers] Responding to people who lack the curiosity

2009-06-12 Thread Pradeep Gowda
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 8:57 AM, Srijayanth Sridhar wrote: > Names are irrelevant on the internet, so I agree with both of you in a > certain way. Well, there is one way to be relevant in programming circles, which is often condensed to -- "show your code or GTFO". Ruby language recently lost a

Re: [BangPypers] BangPypers Digest, Vol 22, Issue 9

2009-06-12 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 11:55 AM, Aman Aggarwal wrote: > On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 3:30 PM, wrote: > > ... > > > I posted the same question here : > > > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/974931/multiply-operator-applied-to-listdata-structure > > > > Kindly read it. > > Thanks and kind regar

Re: [BangPypers] Responding to people who lack the curiosity

2009-06-12 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 6:27 PM, Srijayanth Sridhar wrote: > > > On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 6:12 PM, Pradeep Gowda wrote: > >> On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 7:43 AM, vid wrote: >> > >> > Great discussion... the next time someone posts a "non-curious" question in this list, let us be wise like Solomon

Re: [BangPypers] Responding to people who lack the curiosity

2009-06-12 Thread Srijayanth Sridhar
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 6:12 PM, Pradeep Gowda wrote: > On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 7:43 AM, vid wrote: > > hmm kindly define "real name"[0], "real identity" with respect to > > the online world. If the owner of had used > > "Manmohan Singh" or "Rita Rai" instead of "testing123 test", would you

Re: [BangPypers] Responding to people who lack the curiosity

2009-06-12 Thread Pradeep Gowda
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 7:43 AM, vid wrote: > hmm kindly define "real name"[0], "real identity" with respect to > the online world. If the owner of had used > "Manmohan Singh" or "Rita Rai" instead of "testing123 test", would you > trust them more ? > > [0]  i've been using a nick, for years a

Re: [BangPypers] Responding to people who lack the curiosity

2009-06-12 Thread vid
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 11:01, Pradeep Gowda wrote: > On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 12:31 AM, Sridhar > Ratnakumar wrote: >> I often think the best way to handle such posters is to momentarily >> divert the topic of the conversation to their own interest-level, >> curiosity and self-learning . ... a nic

Re: [BangPypers] Responding to people who lack the curiosity

2009-06-12 Thread Srijayanth Sridhar
> > I have worked with many people who are very reluctant to post to a forum > asking for help. They will spend a whole day trying to figure out the > issue all by themselves. It became so bad that we had to institute a 30 > minutes rule (if you can't solve an issue in 30 minutes - seek help) to >

Re: [BangPypers] Responding to people who lack the curiosity

2009-06-12 Thread Kamal govindraj
> I've considered this argument of a large working population being the > reason > for this. However this argument doesn't hold up because, if this > supposition > were true, then what would also be true is that the number of posts by > people in the Indian developer community would be high. I find

Re: [BangPypers] Responding to people who lack the curiosity

2009-06-12 Thread Srijayanth Sridhar
> > > Anyway, this kind of questions are normally seen with devs who are > just starting off and doesn't have either the curiosity or the time to > devote some time to look at the issues, before asking for help. > Most of the time they can be correct with a gentle nudge in the righ > direction

Re: [BangPypers] Responding to people who lack the curiosity

2009-06-12 Thread Srijayanth Sridhar
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 3:17 PM, Jeff Rush wrote: > Mandar Gokhale wrote: > > Okay, that was really hilarious. But I still believe the issue is not > > confined to Indian developers but *stupid* developers from everywhere. > > It definitely is not confined to Indian developers - I see it from > d

Re: [BangPypers] Responding to people who lack the curiosity

2009-06-12 Thread Jeff Rush
Mandar Gokhale wrote: > Okay, that was really hilarious. But I still believe the issue is not > confined to Indian developers but *stupid* developers from everywhere. It definitely is not confined to Indian developers - I see it from developers in the United States as well. I'd say it's more from

Re: [BangPypers] Responding to people who lack the curiosity

2009-06-12 Thread Anand Balachandran
> > > > I've considered this argument of a large working population being the > reason for this. However this argument doesn't hold up because, if this > supposition were true, then what would also be true is that the number of > posts by people in the Indian developer community would be high. I fi

Re: [BangPypers] Responding to people who lack the curiosity

2009-06-12 Thread Srijayanth Sridhar
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 2:52 PM, Mandar Gokhale wrote: > Okay, that was really hilarious. But I still believe the issue is not > confined to Indian developers but *stupid* developers from everywhere. Maybe > the sheer size of the software industry in India as well as the nature of a > lot of work

Re: [BangPypers] Responding to people who lack the curiosity

2009-06-12 Thread Mandar Gokhale
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Re: [BangPypers] Responding to people who lack the curiosity

2009-06-12 Thread Mandar Gokhale
Okay, that was really hilarious. But I still believe the issue is not confined to Indian developers but *stupid* developers from everywhere. Maybe the sheer size of the software industry in India as well as the nature of a lot of work done in that industry creates a lot of people who want instant a

Re: [BangPypers] Responding to people who lack the curiosity

2009-06-12 Thread Srijayanth Sridhar
As we speak: http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/339092 Jayanth On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 2:30 PM, Srijayanth Sridhar wrote: > the problem is that our education systems teaches tools and not concepts. >> And >> industry also wants people who can use tools and cannot think

Re: [BangPypers] Responding to people who lack the curiosity

2009-06-12 Thread Srijayanth Sridhar
> > the problem is that our education systems teaches tools and not concepts. > And > industry also wants people who can use tools and cannot think for > themselves. > Remember that most of our so-called IT industry does not produce software, > but > just writes code. > While I agree that the prob

Re: [BangPypers] Responding to people who lack the curiosity

2009-06-12 Thread Srijayanth Sridhar
> > Just a slightly unrelated question here...doesn't the industry follow > .NET and Java more than Python/Perl as well? (I've heard this said by > several people in the States as well.) So maybe a change in the industry > mindset would help.. > > True, but my larger point was about their unwi

Re: [BangPypers] Responding to people who lack the curiosity

2009-06-12 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Friday 12 June 2009 13:59:09 Roshan Mathews wrote: > On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Sriram Narayanan wrote: > > I've concluded that a vast number of our developers are actually > > incompetent, and also clueless on how to self-study and to conduct a > > search. Perhaps our education system h

Re: [BangPypers] Responding to people who lack the curiosity

2009-06-12 Thread Mandar Gokhale
Jayanth: I've come to lament the factory like nature of IT in India. People learn extremely minimal subset of specialized skills. I've had chaps who can't see beyond .NET or Java very simply because these are industry idioms. I tell them stuff about perl, python or ruby and I get back "but those ar

Re: [BangPypers] Responding to people who lack the curiosity

2009-06-12 Thread Anand Balachandran
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Srijayanth Sridhar wrote: > Good points, but what I am most curious about is why this phenomenon is so > prevalent in the Indian dev community and not as pervasive elsewhere. The > ruby community is rife with apt examples. The average Indian developer will > pop u

Re: [BangPypers] Responding to people who lack the curiosity

2009-06-12 Thread Roshan Mathews
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Sriram Narayanan wrote: > I've concluded that a vast number of our developers are actually > incompetent, and also clueless on how to self-study and to conduct a > search. Perhaps our education system has conditioned their minds to > mug up and to read various stud

Re: [BangPypers] Responding to people who lack the curiosity

2009-06-12 Thread Srijayanth Sridhar
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > On Friday 12 June 2009 12:34:18 Srijayanth Sridhar wrote: > > wrt my earlier question, the following blog is a nice writeup. I realize > > its Ruby, but the general principles of posting on a newsgroup/forum > apply. > > > > http://blog.

Re: [BangPypers] Responding to people who lack the curiosity

2009-06-12 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 12:21 PM, Srijayanth Sridhar wrote: [..] > I've come to lament the factory like nature of IT in India. People learn > extremely minimal subset of specialized skills. I've had chaps who can't see > beyond .NET or Java very simply because these are industry idioms. I tell > th

Re: [BangPypers] Responding to people who lack the curiosity

2009-06-12 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Friday 12 June 2009 12:34:18 Srijayanth Sridhar wrote: > wrt my earlier question, the following blog is a nice writeup. I realize > its Ruby, but the general principles of posting on a newsgroup/forum apply. > > http://blog.rubybestpractices.com/posts/jamesbritt/and_your_Mom_too.html including

Re: [BangPypers] Responding to people who lack the curiosity

2009-06-12 Thread Srijayanth Sridhar
Hello, wrt my earlier question, the following blog is a nice writeup. I realize its Ruby, but the general principles of posting on a newsgroup/forum apply. http://blog.rubybestpractices.com/posts/jamesbritt/and_your_Mom_too.html Thank you, Jayanth On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 12:21 PM, Srijayanth